Lebedjew biography definition

Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev (March 8, 1866 – March 1, 1912) is considered to be the first world-level Russian physicist. Lebedev is most noted for his contribution to experimental studies of waves.

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He was the first to measure the pressure of light on a solid body (1900) confirming the Maxwell theory. He was very committed to popularizing science and also to training the next generation of Russian scientists. His premature death may have cost him a Nobel Prize, for which he was nominated. A man of conviction, he resigned from his Chair at Moscow University when the Tsar Nicholas II attempted to impose restrictions of the University's freedom.

Biography

Lebedev was born in 1866 into a family of merchants.

Biography of Mikhail Lebedev

In 1884 he entered Moscow High Engineering College. Alhough the career of civil engineering for which the College prepared him did not attract Lebedev, his course gave him technical experience which would later prove valuable for his own experiments. In 1887 he went to study Lebedev - Wikipedia ZESIH